James M. Talent

That is the gravamen of the charges against President Clinton.

The issue is whether we have the integrity to do our duty under the Constitution and laws.

Hard as impeachment may be, to ignore misconduct so grave and notorious would be to suggest that the importance to the country of an office can place the holder of the office above the country's laws.

No one can fall below those standards with impunity.

It is not my preference or custom to speak on matters relating to the misconduct of others who hold public office.

That is the other question. Who was it that opposed this provision? Let us be up front about it. Was it not the insurance company who opposed this provision?

I will just repeat again, we had a good bill. It would have provided the people the care they need, when they need it, when their physician recommends it, without big government and a lot of lawyers' fees. As the gentleman from Georgia…

If you are an employee of, let us say the Boeing Company, and Boeing has a very important division in my district with a former McDonnell Douglas company, with tens and tens of thousands of people working for them, it is a great company…

It would be borderline because under the law today you are allowed attorney's fees. So it would be a borderline type of situation. In many cases the lawyer would just say and the patient would say, ``It's not worth it.'' Why do I want to…

And it would have been up to her physician to decide whether it was emergency or urgent care which then triggers the time limits in the bill. Moreover, if the plan had denied coverage after the external review panel had said it was…

There is a major difference. Under our bill, you do not have to die first. You can sue to get the treatment that you need. Because the emphasis here, and I appreciate the gentleman's comments, I say, in all good faith, the emphasis here is…

I just think that this resolution is important for a number of reasons. They have commented, and I think it bears repeating, on the class that Mark McGwire had throughout this whole season as he chased this record. He showed the affection…

I do not want to bash the District of Columbia schools. I think we owe these kids and their parents who care so much about this debate the truth. The truth of the matter is that the District of Columbia schools are not safe, and the kids…

Do we want to stand with and for the small businesspeople of this country against one of the things that irks them and demoralizes them and costs them the most, which is useless kind of government paperwork and arbitrary kinds of fines? Or…

Mr. Speaker, we are a country that has been blessed with great prosperity. With our affluence has come more choices for all the American people. The more choices we have, the more important it is to exercise responsibility along with our…

I did not want this bill to effect the 8(a) program, and as far as I am concerned, it is out of this bill, it is not mentioned in this bill; and that the HUBZone bill is designed to provide a little bit of an additional boost to…

I do also, and certainly would hope that the agency will move toward as much securitization as financial soundness permits. That is what the committee has been working to accomplish.

in the first place, I have the greatest respect for all of my colleagues, and I know that they are doing what they are doing out of passion. They are, however, dragging in a number of issues that are extraneous to this bill and making…

I am reminded that, in the midst of all this heat and the very little light, we are dealing with an issue that really matters to real people, to the millions of kids and their parents in low-income neighborhoods who are trapped in schools…

I want to read a quote from Jonathan Rauch, who was writing in the November 10th New Republic. I think it is applicable to the debate today. ``It's hard to get excited about improving rich suburban high schools that act as feeders for Ivy…

There are millions of children trapped in schools, in America's urban core, where they do not learn, where they are not safe, and where their parents know with a terrible certainty that the schools are not going to change. Madam Speaker, I…

I think it is a shame. I think it is sad that so many people inside this House and outside this House have been fighting to the last ditch on behalf of the system that has trapped thousands and thousands of poor parents and their children…

The issue is this. We do not use taxpayer dollars to fund abortions here in the United States. We should be clear and certain that we do not do so abroad as well, and that is what we are talking about here, making crystal-clear what I…

My district in Missouri has a major FUSRAP site which contains nuclear contamination from the Manhattan Project and other hazardous waste. For 15 years, we have worked with the Department of Energy to clean up this site. Finally, in just…

the primary purpose of H.R. 2261 is to reauthorize the Small Business Administration [SBA] and the programs which that agency manages by authority granted under the Small Business Act and the Small Business Investment Act through fiscal…